Tomas Karasek, Ph.D. is currently the Head of the National Competence Centre in HPC of the Czech Republic and head of the Parallel Algorithm Research Lab at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. Previously he spent seven years in several positions at Institute of High-Performance Computing in Singapore. In the past, he participated in several EC funded projects concentrating on SMEs such as SESAME Net, InnoHPC, and the PRACE SHAPE program. Dr. Karasek has received funding for more than 30 projects of contractual research from industrial partners in the past 15 years and is the author or co-author of more than 20 scientific papers.